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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 481ede3eac13..3f7ee102868a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -5867,8 +5867,15 @@ ftrace_graph_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
mutex_unlock(&graph_lock);
- /* Wait till all users are no longer using the old hash */
- synchronize_rcu();
+ /*
+ * We need to do a hard force of sched synchronization.
+ * This is because we use preempt_disable() to do RCU, but
+ * the function tracers can be called where RCU is not watching
+ * (like before user_exit()). We can not rely on the RCU
+ * infrastructure to do the synchronization, thus we must do it
+ * ourselves.
+ */
+ schedule_on_each_cpu(ftrace_sync);
free_ftrace_hash(old_hash);
}